The predictors of adopting a health‐promoting lifestyle among work site adults with prediabetes

Abstract

Findings guide the clinical assessment (e.g. self-efficacy) of prediabetic adults regarding their health-promoting lifestyles and provide effective guidelines for designing lifestyle interventions to prevent prediabetes in high-risk groups.

Factors associated with health-promoting behavior of people with or at high risk of metabolic syndrome: Based on the health belief model

“…Perceived benefits/barriers to exercise were measured using an 8-item and 7-item scale respectively adopted from Chen and Lin (2010). Subjects were asked to rate their beliefs on benefits/barriers of the health action on a five-point Likert scale (1="strongly disagree to 5= "strongly agree").…”

“…The original study reported Cronbach's alphas ranging from 0.90 to 0.95 for the original scales, whereas Cronbach's alpha of 0.79 to 0.87 was achieved in the present study, demonstrating good internal consistency of this instrument. Perceived self-efficacy was assessed by the Chinese version (Chen & Lin, 2010) of the self-rated abilities scale originated by Becker, Stuifbergen, Oh, and Hall (1993). Self-efficacy of exercise and diet management was measured on 7-item and 6-item subscales respectively using a five-point Likert scale (from 1="no confidence" to 5="100% confidence").…”

The impact of pre‐diabetes diagnosis on behaviour change: an integrative literature review

“…state that different ethnic groups need to have different interventions to modify behaviour. Self‐efficacy underpins an individual's ability to then make changes to their lifestyle . However, even with this understanding, ambivalence was one of the underpinning themes found in the studies .…”

“…The evidence demonstrated that lack of knowledge and understanding about pre‐diabetes on diagnosis resulted in patients not recognising the importance of lifestyle changes even though there is a strong correlation between knowledge of pre‐diabetes and adoption of healthy lifestyles …”

“…It has been suggested that lifestyle change is best achieved within a support programme and also linked to the concept of self‐efficacy . Geiss et al .…”